SIMPLY DEVOTED

Table of Contents

SECTION I - Real Rest

Introduction | Whispers: ”People need to be filled” | Stand at the Crossroads | Seeking Jesus | Whispers: ”Don’t believe the lies” | Entering God’s Rest. | Whispers: ”I want you to play” | At His Knee | Whispers: ”Ask yourself this question”. | Asleep on the Water. | Seated With Jesus | Whispers: ”I am capable of being your Life”. | Rest - The Cure for Anxiety | The Garden Gates to God’s Rest. | Whispers: ”Don’t try to figure out a plan”. | Whispers: “Worship - when it is your occupation” | You’ll Love It at Levitz | Sabbath Resting & Some Thoughts on the Sabbath | The Sabbath is Today. | “I will wait on You forever” | Marinate | “Where Will My Resting Place Be?” |


SECTION II - Trusting

Introduction | Taking Delight | Whispers: ”First focus on My power”. | Whispers: ”Keep waiting and do so expectantly” | Whispers: ”My answers are always more adventuresome” | Whispers: “ Put your confidence in Me.” | You Don’t Have to Think about YourselfPsalm 139:17 | Whispers: “Fix your eyes upon Jesus” | Whispers: “Have faith and believe I can” | Reach Out--I’ll Be There | Whispers: “Your hand. Leave it in Mine” | Whispers: “I will always listen to you”. | Our Sufficiency | Whispers: “Do you imagine that you can see” | Whispers: “I am only answering your prayers” | Whispers: “You think My answers come all wrapped” | Letting Go | Ordinary Days | Whispers: “Trust Me to be loving with you” | Keep Going | Whispers: “Because for so many years you have” | The Burr | Whispers: “Welcome home. I’ve been waiting here”. | Boulder Believer. | Whispers: “Child, you have made your enemy mad” | Whispers: “Remember, I have all the time” |


SECTION III - Escape from Legalism

Introduction | Choose Your Fruit | Whispers: “I don’t bring guilt” | Whispers: “Remember what I taught you about” | Whispers: “I want you to learn to rely on the settled-ness” | A Tale of Two Campuses | A Dilemma | Whispers: “You think that if you dwell on the sin” | The Barren | Whispers: “You are making burdens for yourself”. | Whispers: “Proud hearts are hard to make out”. | Expectations | Whispers: “Believe Me that I will give you the want-to” | A Letter about Love | Whispers: “You will know when I have anointed you” | Whispers: Footloose | No Condemnation | The Hard Master Lie | Whispers: “It has to be good enough for you to just do My will” | Getting to the Root | Whispers: “I am smiling, child” | Delight—The Antidote for Dread | Whispers: “You should be doing what your in-love heart” | Whispers: “I designed you to be with Me” |


SECTION IV - Devotion

Introduction | Devote Yourself to Be Close to Me | Whispers: “You are content with too little of Me” | Not Logic ... Love | I Choose You-Joshua 24:15 | Whispers: “Come and sit still with Me” | Whispers: “Abide. Dwell. Make your abode.” | Enough | Courtship | The Love Who is Jesus | Whispers: “I draw you into the light”. | In the Still of the Night | The King and I. | Whispers: “Write this love letter from Me to you”. | A Real WellWith Water in It | Sleepless in Seattle | Beloved General | Memories and Longings. | Unchained Melody. | Under New Management | Pigeon Praise. | Sentimental Journey | Whispers: “I love you, My child” | Wise Virgins | Whispers: “Have you noticed that the most difficult” | Untamed Faith |


SECTION V - Dying to Live

Introduction | Titanic Thoughts | Whispers: “Hold on. It’s a battle” | God’s Exchange Policy | Coming to the End of Me | The Danger of Being Good | Company for My Mind | The Relay | The Transplant | The Abdication | The Case of the Rising Tree | I Will Wait for You | Wanting What I Don’t Want | Threshing Floors and Temples | Behind the Pillar | A Heart of Gold |


SECTION VI - Through His Eyes

Introduction | Whispers: “Come, now is the time to worship.” | I Love You Just the Way You Are | Whispers: “I have made all of My children uniquely special” | Whispers: “And now you are My favorite house” | Whispers: “Not only do I love to meet with you” | Whispers: “When you feel encouraged and edified” | The River and the Dam | The Architect and the Wonderful Little House | Seeky, Leaky Heart | Whispers: “I want My people to experience.” | Unless You Change and Become Like Little Children | Whispers: “I am teaching you how not to judge others” | Whispers: “Everybody in My family is in the process” | Whispers: “Judging is being obsessed with the wrong done” | Whispers: “Authority is always based in relationship” | Eyes of Love | Whispers: “One soul is more precious to Me” | Kingdom Children United | Whispers: “People have trouble waiting on Me” | Whispers: “You are going to be wrong sometimes”
Whispers: “As a person dwells in Me he is close” | Whispers: “I am not worried about My churches” | Fruit Fight | Rejoice with Those Who Rejoice; Mourn with Those Who Mourn | The Little Puppy and His House | Whispers: “Child, you are okay. Take a deep breath” | The Greater Love | Whispers: “My people hurt from inflicted wounds” | Whispers: “There can be no foothold for your enemy”. | The House that Daddy Built | Whispers: “Encouragement is one of the greatest needs” | The Conversation | Whispers: “So often My children try to give each other formulas”


SECTION VII - Interference

Introduction | Whispers: “Everybody, including your own mind, will want” | Entertaining Thoughts | Whispers: “Believe Me. Hear and make your own My promises” | Doggone It! | Psalm 35 Paraphrase | Whispers: “When you battle you are on the field” | Whispers: “You are a soldier” | That Bad Kid | Whispers: “You need to give yourself permission to learn” | Whispers: “You try to talk yourself out of your sinful feelings” | Whispers: “You can’t fight your sin alone” | Whispers: “When you hear something I have said” | The Draft | Evade Egypt | Robbers | The Promised Land #1: Paved Paradise | The Promised Land #2: Stronghold | Whispers: “Don’t care so much what others are saying” | Rahab Sits Still, Jesus Rises, Dagon Falls: Isaiah 30 | The Faithful Bride of Christ | Crabgrass | Whispers: “It is always My will and My plan to equip you” | Whispers: “Beware when you think you stand lest you fall” | Whispers: “Hold on to all the fought-for truths” | Whispers: “Now you are going to be misunderstood” | Whispers: “I knew praise as well as persecution” | Whispers: “I’m your Daddy, first and foremost” | Whispers: “Your love for Me will be the basis” |


SECTION VIII - Testing

Introduction | This Is a Test | God Blessed Me with the Blues | Lead Me Not | The Challenge of Blessings | A Lesson from Pooh and Piglet | Whispers: I like the term "workshop days” |


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